Lucas can still play for this year. He cannot sell Jeanty to do it.

Lucas is 0–4, and the latest loss is already decided. Fuss is up 43 before his quarterback plays. That is a bad place. It is not a dead season. There are ten games left and only six of them before the Thursday after week 10, which is the last night a trade can be accepted. The plan is to find out if this roster can win before that Thursday, and to refuse the deal that makes the question irrelevant.

1. Be honest about the math, and then stop staring at it.

He needs something like seven wins in the last ten to get to 7–7, which is the neighborhood where a six-team field starts to have an argument. Four wins gets him to 4–10, and that is next year. Nico Collins had 23.8, Jordan Love had 13, Jeanty had 12.6, and Aaron Jones had 12.8. The roster can score. Ladd McConkey being out with a foot is why this week had no second receiver. It is not a reason to decide the season on a Monday.

2. Jeanty, Nico, and Love are not available.

Those three are the franchise. Pacheco is on IR, which is a stash you wait on, not a starter you can tell yourself you already have. Goedert is out. Kyler Murray is on the bench behind Love, and that is fine. Sitting Love was never the path. Selling him because the record is ugly would be the thing that turns a slow start into a long one.

3. Offer Murray to Fuss. Keep the firsts in the drawer.

He can pay a pick, which is why he has to be careful with them. His own picks are still his. He also holds Greer’s 2026 first and Thomas’s 2027 first and 2028 first. Thomas cannot trade those back, so they sit with Lucas until the freeze ends, and they are not loose change for a rental. The trade that fits the league is Kyler Murray to Fuss. Fuss is starting Shough, Darnold is the backup, and Murray is a quarterback he might play. The return has to be a back Lucas would start next to Jeanty. Warren or Stevenson is the ask, and Henderson is the other name. If Fuss wants Murray and a first on top, the back has to be better than Aaron Jones, and it still cannot be Jeanty. Hefner is the second call. A.J. Brown is out, so he needs a receiver, and Meyers or Johnston alone will not get Taylor or Henry. Meyers and a second for Najee is a depth deal, and Lucas should only make it if Najee would start. Judkins is the ambitious version. Hefner does not have to say yes. Nico, Ladd, and Love are not in either package.

4. Ninety points is not the front of the waiver line.

The order follows the week, and 90 is not going to have him picking first. Ladd is out, so if a receiver with a real role is sitting there he puts the claim in, and if the teams in front of him want that player he does not get him. Wicks had 1.8 in the lineup. That does not mean the wire owes him a replacement. If the name is gone, the move is the receiver already on the bench.

5. The Thursday after week 10 is the decision.

Four wins in the next six games makes him 4–6, and at 4–6 he is still a buyer. Murray is the chip, not a first he already collected from somebody else. Two wins makes him 2–8, and that is when Aaron Jones can be shopped to a contender for a pick. Jeanty, Nico, and Love stay. He does not spend Greer’s 2026 first, or Thomas’s 2027 and 2028 firsts, to rent a back for a season that is already over. A text message on Friday of that week is not a trade. Sleeper has to have accepted it before Thursday night kickoff.